PRIZE WINNING ROCKERIES. 



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The Rockery That Won Third 



wide. After putting a layer of broken 

 stones in the bottom for drainage I filled 

 the spaces even with the top with earth 

 composed of old sod and manure which had 

 been standing foi; over a year. This was 

 packed down well and allowed to stand for 

 a couple of months. Before planting the 

 flowers I loosened the earth to a depth of 

 about six inches. I planted geraniums, 

 coleuses and dracenas. For trailers I used 

 creeping ivy, nasturtiums and periwinkle, 

 while small pockets were filled with alyssum 

 and trailing lobelia. I also added some 

 single petunias later in the season. In 

 planting the varieties were intermixed as 

 much as possible." 



Dr. D. G. Storms, who won the third 

 prize, informs The Horticulturist that his 

 orders to the builder were : " Put the 

 stones together so that no one will suspect 

 any design." " I reaHze," says Dr. Storms, 

 " that nature abhors straight lines. My 

 rockery was built on no other plan than 

 that of nature, except that it was extended 

 from the corner of the house to the angle 

 formed by the two sidewalks. In building 



Prize. 



it the soil for the for- 

 mation was loosened 

 and thoroughly en- 

 riched with well-rot- 

 ted manure. The 

 stones were placed 

 without order except 

 to leave pockets here 

 and there. The soil 

 used was a mixture 

 of old clay sod, well 

 rotted chip dirt and 

 cow manure, with 

 some leaf mould. 



'* I have endeavor- 

 ed to place in the 

 rockery only those 

 plants which are at 

 h o m e. I used 

 hepatica, ferns and 



periwinkle. For bloom I depended on ver- 

 benas. My idea was not to make a flower 

 bed, but simply an attractive and useful 

 rockery." 



Regarding the rockery of the Hamilton 

 Cataract Power Co., which won fourth ' 

 prize, Mr. Wm. A. Sweet says : " The 

 rockery was made of mossy waterworn 

 limestone rocks gathered from the side of 

 the mountain. It is about 14 feet wide, 18 

 feet long, and three feet high, and runs 

 from the corner of the building to the side- 

 walk. The space between the rocks was 

 filled with equal parts of well mixed rotted 

 manure, black loam and sand loam. 



" Around the sides were planted some 

 small rock ferns and wild flowers from the 

 mountain, and nasturtiums. The top was 

 well filled with various traiHng and creep- 

 ing plants, such as centrosema, cypress vine, 

 portulaca and canary creeper. I also had 

 some geraniums, fuchsias, cannas, aspara- 

 gus and ivy geraniums. Some of these do 

 not belong to rockery plants, but I put them 

 in because it was too late in the season to 

 get the more desirable kinds." 



